Office ofthe Provost

Clara Zahler

College of Visual and Performing Arts, School of Music

Clara Zahler, violinist, was born in Cremona, Italy. She has performed as a soloist,
chamber musician, and as a member of orchestras with conductors such as Carlo Maria
Giulini, Riccardo Muti, Kurt Mazur, John Pritchard, Kurt Sanderling, Giuseppe Patane,
Paul Phillips, Leonard Slatkin, Skitch Henderson, Eve Queler, Richard Westenberg,
Robert Shaw, Arthur Weisberg, Leon Botstein and Paul Zukofsky. Her membership in orchestras
includes, American Symphony Orchestra, Metropolitan Opera Ballet Orchestra, New York
Pops, Mostly Mozart Festival, Martha Graham Dance Company, The Orchestra of the 20th
Century and the Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (Florence, Italy). She
has performed with the Bolshoi Ballet, Kirov Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet, Royal Canadian
Ballet, Canadian National Ballet, The Netherlands Ballet, The Cuban National Ballet,
Royal Danish Ballet, and the Dance Theater of Harlem. Experience on Broadway includes
the orchestras of On Your Toes, My One and Only, The Tap Dance Kid, Evita, David Copperfield,
and Les Misérables.

Her formal studies were carried out at the Juilliard School with Sally Thomas, C.U.N.Y.
Queens College with William Kroll. Private studies continued with Matthew Raimondi
(the Composers Quartet) and Burton Kaplan (Manhattan School).

Ms. Zahler has been a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University School of Music,
the University of Minnesota School of Music, Connecticut College, and the Third Street
Music School (NYC). She is presently Professor of Practice at the Texas Tech University
School of Music.